King Edward VI School (commonly shortened to K.E.S. and pronounced /kɛs/ kes) is a boys grammar school and academy in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is generally believed that William Shakespeare attended this school, leading to the label of "Shakespeare's School".
There has been an educational facility at the current site of the school since at least the early thirteenth century. A schoolroom, schoolhouse and payment of £20 per a...
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King Edward VI School (commonly shortened to K.E.S. and pronounced /kɛs/ kes) is a boys grammar school and academy in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is generally believed that William Shakespeare attended this school, leading to the label of "Shakespeare's School".
There has been an educational facility at the current site of the school since at least the early thirteenth century. A schoolroom, schoolhouse and payment of £20 per annum for a master was one of the provisions of King Edward VI's charter which established Stratford-upon-Avon as a borough in June, 1553. The school was re-founded as one of King Edward's schools nine days before the young king died of tuberculosis and is believed to be the last of the King Edward VI Schools. A history of the early years of the school has been published by the former chairman of the governors Levi Fox
The playwright and poet William Shakespeare attended the school between the ages of seven to fourteen. His father, John...
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